fatherland

There was nothing else but themselves they could dedicate themselves to—no patria, no fatherland, no nation as yet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

"We have to defend the fatherland," he tells the BBC, echoing speeches given by President Maduro in the wake of the strikes on the boats.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2025

"We are strongly motivated to defend our fatherland, and this is the best remedy for fear," he said.

From Reuters ● Aug. 17, 2023

A new ideology extols the Orthodox Church, the fatherland, the family and the “the spiritual over the material.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2023

When they were finished, they stood and made a toast to the fatherland.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

Will they stand with folded arms and see their fatherlands attacked?

From New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various

But since the religious in the Filipinas Islands are not rooted in their fatherlands, but on the contrary regard themselves as exiled therefrom, it is impossible for them to return thither.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Edward Gaylord Bourne

In it might be felt the succession of the ages, and, as it were, the memorials of forgotten fatherlands.

From Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert

Alien to me, and a mockery, are the present-day men, to whom of late my heart impelled me; and exiled am I from fatherlands and motherlands.

From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Millions have experienced the inevitable discomfort of a foreign tradition which makes alien their fatherlands, and strangers of their children.

From Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism by Henry Seidel Canby